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Last year’s finalists from team Pinchett Petro Poutanen and Aleksi Moisio share their tips with future applicants: believe in your idea, get your hands dirty as soon as possible and talk about your idea constantly to everyone around you sparing no-one.
Director Justin Ferrell from Stanford dSchool tells the gist of design thinking and keys to successful innovation processes: observe the users to find their needs, prototype early, fail often and fail fast. Ferrell will coach the Uutisraivaaja BootCamp in December in Helsinki. Ferrell runs the Fellowships programs at dSchool. Previously he worked in the Washington…
The contest seeks ideas for renewing distribution of information and creating sustainable business models for journalism. The idea can be a new way to publish online, for example, or a new revenue model for publishing content. Application period runs until 17 January 2013.
The jury of the Uutisraivaaja contest chose ten finalists to the second round. The finalists have four months to develop their idea further, and in August they will be presenting their projects to the jury again. The jury will then choose the winner or the winners in the contest.